Longevity via Practical Knowledge

[CandidPicker]

Although I'm not a doctor myself, over the years I've learned several tips from medical professionals on how to maintain one's health and longevity via some easy-to-do steps. You may also view something of this type of information on TV, but please consider these 4 steps as practical knowledge that will help you live longer with better quality of life...

1) Eat healthy nutritious meals, with smaller portions. (When you were younger, you believed that you could eat anything and not suffer the consequences. However, today, you do know that eating junk food will shorten your lifespan considerably, or reduce your quality of life)

2) Use it or Lose It. Along with a healthy diet, regular moderate or vigorous exercise several times a week will strengthen and maintain what muscle mass you already have, and improve emotional and cognitive function in older adults. Exercise also improves flexibility and balance, an important facet for older adults who are often subject to falls because they lose the ability to balance well as they grow older.

3) Cleanliness. One of the most important factors regards maintaining one's health is cleanliness. Regular hand-washing and personal hygiene, although common to most households, promotes ridding oneself of bacteria and viruses that may lurk where lack of cleanliness is evident. Even if it's your household, you might treat your house like you might your own body...a clean house is a happy place to live...if your house reeks of smoke, imagine what this is doing to your's and your family's health. Do away with bad habits and replace them with good ones.

4) Adequate sleep. Many of us work long days and desire nothing more than to arrive home, eat, shower, and crawl into bed. Consider that if you don't receive adequate sleep at night, your health is being compromised. Numerous health risks occur when adults don't receive enough sleep. Consider logging off the computer, washing up and brushing your teeth before bed, and be sure you own comfortable sleeping arrangements that would not disturb your well-earned sleep.

Long story short: What we take in, what and how we output, what we keep clean, and adequate rest at night will help us live longer lives. Thanks for reading...

 

[sergiodeblanc]

 

[toothace]

Uhhh...

 

[pac90]

 

[shimmilou]

George Burns smoked 8 cigars, and drank numerous alcoholic beverages, every day for most of his adult life, and lived to be 100.

 

[CandidPicker]

You may be correct, but good ol' George was not the norm in the US population.

Most people in the late 50s and 60s only had lifespans much less than 100, but lived as long as they did because things like fast foods, processed carbs, and junk foods were non-existent in that time. Grocery stores had far fewer things to choose from, and were more basic foods like staples and unprocessed foods.

Your grandmother likely cooked home-cooked meals that used ingredients she considered healthy, that was until the FDA began telling us what was healthy nutrition. What trickled down was when people began viewing their doctors as less than gods, and modern medicine began to be more of a doctor-patient wellness relationship.

FTR, I don't think any of us likes viewing ourselves as short, round, balding people. Do you?

My suggestions are merely practical advice on how bodily training along with cleanliness and adequate sleep echo what doctors might suggest for a healthy life.

 

[pac90]

The only way you'll get into medical school is if you donate your body to medical science

 

[CandidPicker]

The only way you'll get into medical school is if you donate your body to medical science

I tried offering myself once but they said I was disqualified because of the lobotomy. Your turn.

 

[László]

 

[Huggy Love]

Hey wait a minute here...... ...... aren't those some gluten filled bread or sandwiches in your avatar?

 

[dmatthews]

The only way you'll get into medical school is if you donate your body to medical science

Bwahahahahahaha!!!

 

[CandidPicker]

Hey wait a minute here...... ...... aren't those some gluten filled bread or sandwiches in your avatar?

Zhanghong Milk Bread. Research umi's baking on YT. I'm no Martha Stewart, but feed some of my friends with these, when they might be in need.

 

[CandidPicker]

I tried peach cobbler with canned peaches this past weekend. Turned out delicious!

I usually don't bake too often, and hardly ever do pizza dough. I strongly urge folks to reconsider their health and avoid eating junk food. I know it tastes good, and satisfies your late night craving, but the salt and fat will only raise your BP and cause a glycemic spike. You'd be asleep quicker than shot, and packing the pounds.

Some foods (IN MODERATION) are healthier choices. My feeling was that bodily training and money has its place...how much you eat and exercise is important to good health. Save the iced coffee for another day...no one can call themselves healthy if they fail to follow safe or healthy choices.

 

[shimmilou]

Just my personal opinion, but I believe that natural things, including salt, sugar, all of the so-called "high cholesterol" things like eggs and sausage, are fine. But it is the unnatural things like preservatives, added growth hormones, antibiotics, fluoride, high fructose corn syrup, and other such things that are put into our food/water, that are harmful to health.

The lack of nutrients in most of our food these days, even compared to 50 years ago, is the source of a great deal of health issues. "Health care" in modern times is a joke, or even pure hogwash, with the intention of robbing us of our health and lining the pockets of big pharmaceutical companies. Notice that there is no money to be made from cures, but big bucks to be made from lifetime "treatment".

 

[CandidPicker]

Just my personal opinion, but I believe that natural things, including salt, sugar, all of the so-called "high cholesterol" things like eggs and sausage, are fine. But it is the unnatural things like preservatives, added growth hormones, antibiotics, fluoride, high fructose corn syrup, and other such things that are put into our food/water, that are harmful to health.

The lack of nutrients in most of our food these days, even compared to 50 years ago, is the source of a great deal of health issues. "Health care" in modern times is a joke, or even pure hogwash, with the intention of robbing us of our health and lining the pockets of big pharmaceutical companies. Notice that there is no money to be made from cures, but big bucks to be made from lifetime "treatment,"

I agree with you, except some foods should be eaten sparingly, not everyday. The preservatives and additives are there because certain foods would have a shorter shelf life if these additives weren't there.

In ancient times, people preserved their foods by salting them ad nauseum. Granted, they also washed away or soaked their foods in clean water to remove the salt. and, salt was considered such an important commodity in ancient times that people were often paid in salt...hence the phrase "the worker is worth his salt..." That essentially is the reason why brining is popular among modern chefs.

However, exercise depletes your electrolytes, and requires replenishing. My great-grandfather, an old farmer who lived in Quebec province, made for his farmhands a concoction called "Switchel" which was essentially an old farmer's energy drink. They didn't have things like Gatorade or Powerade back then, so G-GDad used what he had on hand and made this energy drink for his thirsty farmhands.

One of the reasons why food doesn't taste as good as it used to, or the reason food isn't as nutritious, is the soil is being depleted of essential nutrients from over-farming, despite the use of fertilizers and land management. Mankind, unless it uses more conservative farming techniques, with the growing population will be less healthy in the future because they won't receive necessary nutrition from food.

THAT is the reason why pharmaceuticals provide things like vitamins and supplements to help keep you strong...they know the public fears older age and loss of quality of life. Yet, their mission is not completely economic. True caregivers and providers are concerned about your health and helping you keep your health in good standing.

You've raised a good point about cures...if you had the power to cure people of grievous sickness, would you not use that power to do it? Not asking you for a ham sandwich. Asking you do you think if modern medicine could cure people of sickness, wouldn't they?

Or, is modern medicine more accurately described as treating and mitigating the symptoms or injury by providing treatment plans that require following medical instructions, even if the plan may include things like prescription drugs or over-the-counter medications?

I'll be honest with you, one of my few meds is for my blood pressure. With age comes loss of pliability of blood vessels. Although I don't know just how the meds work, it helps lower my BP so there is less chance for other health conditions that could compromise my otherwise "good" health. Like others, I also take some vitamins and supplements because my food choices don't always meet daily nutritional requirements.

Rather than describe this as "ripping off the public," I just see this as part of the journey in life. Perhaps others will read this and use it for economic gain or for entertainment. My feeling is that everyone shares information these days that sometimes entertains, sometimes is beneficial, sometimes is worthless.

You can choose and decide for yourselves if people could use a break from their daily work, their household or family responsibilities, and just be able to sit back with your feet up while sipping a cup of tea or coffee. We all might worry less at the end of the day about what you describe as being "robbed" with issues about dieting and exercise, our cleanliness, and sleep. And yes, I own a chair that reclines, like many people do.

 

[shimmilou]

Excellent point about soil nutrient depletion.

I remember reading from several sources, that using general packaged vitamins is not really that good for you. Isolating vitamin A for example, is not nearly as effective without the associated micro nutrients that are normally with it in natural sources.

Many years ago, I started a vitamin routine recommended by a local "health" store, I think it was GNC. The pre-packaged blend of vitamins contained something like 1000% of the RDA for each particular vitamin or nutrient. It made for some fantastically dark, odorous urine. I asked the guy at the store why in the world there was so much, instead of only 100%, and he said "don't worry, your body will expel what it doesn't need." I began to wonder, why in the world am I literally pissing money away for no good reason. After learning more about these bogus vitamin regimens, I quit wasting my money, and focused instead on trying to reduce the bad things that I ingested. Probably the most important for me was absolutely no more tap water. Fluoride in particular is a health hazard, not to mention the plethora of other contaminants that are in there. Yet, those in charge, so-called health experts, have convinced many people that an industrial waste is "good for our teeth."

The vast majority of countries in the world have banned fluoride in drinking water because of the well known health hazards, yet here in the US we still use it. WTF? Oh yeah, nearly all of the health hazards from fluoride can be treated by big pharma. And of course, the side effects from those treatments can also be treated by big pharma.

 

[CandidPicker]

Excellent point about soil nutrient depletion.

I remember reading from several sources, that using general packaged vitamins is not really that good for you. Isolating vitamin A for example, is not nearly as effective without the associated micro nutrients that are normally with it in natural sources.

Many years ago, I started a vitamin routine recommended by a local "health" store, I think it was GNC. The pre-packaged blend of vitamins contained something like 1000% of the RDA for each particular vitamin or nutrient. It made for some fantastically dark, odorous urine. I asked the guy at the store why in the world there was so much, instead of only 100%, and he said "don't worry, your body will expel what it doesn't need."

I began to wonder, why in the world am I literally pissing money away for no good reason. After learning more about these bogus vitamin regimens, I quit wasting my money, and focused instead on trying to reduce the bad things that I ingested. Probably the most important for me was absolutely no more tap water. Fluoride in particular is a health hazard, not to mention the plethora of other contaminants that are in there. Yet, those in charge, so-called health experts, have convinced many people that an industrial waste is "good for our teeth."

The vast majority of countries in the world have banned fluoride in drinking water because of the well known health hazards, yet here in the US we still use it. WTF? Oh yeah, nearly all of the health hazards from fluoride can be treated by big pharma. And of course, the side effects from those treatments can also be treated by big pharma.

Fluoride is still a concern because it's mostly designed to promote good dental health, when people need only brush and floss and those little Christmas tree thingies between the teeth. Although you're speaking above my head here, wouldn't it make more sense if public health officials simply removed fluoride from drinking water? And instructed dentists to teach the patients abut good dental health, without drinking water fluoride?

That being said, my day tomorrow includes visiting the dentist for a routine cleaning. She'll check my overbite, I'll reply I remembered some Dentyne Ice for her beforehand, we'll laugh, then she'll douse me with sonic water and scrape the bejeebus out of my teeth. But, my teeth will clean clean and sparkly., and I'll smile at her and thank her for the enjoyable day. The only thing amazing about all of this is that I get to sit back, put my feet up, clench my legs, and speak walkie-talkie language to her while she works. And yes, I have to do this every so often. It's one of the blessings one has to do because we eat food, that also requires teeth cleaning.

And TBH, she ordered the dental appointment. I just agreed to a place and time.

 

[shimmilou]

BTW, I personally know two people that had major health issues, and used to use some heavy duty man-made prescription medicines which caused even more health issues, and they always felt sickly. They both eventually ditched all man-made medicines and switched to just one natural "medicine", and their health improved immensely. It breaks my heart to know that natural cures/treatments have been suppressed, while poisons have been, and still are being, pushed at huge profits.

Remember a few years back, Merck drug company was sued to the tune of 3 billion dollars, over some drugs of theirs that were making people sick and even killing them? During that same time, they made a profit of 8 billion dollars on these drugs. They paid the 3 billion and kept on going, business as usual, because they still made 5 billion profit, so why change anything? On TV, it seems that every other commercial is some man made drug being pushed, and every other commercial is about a lawsuit against these exact same drugs.

 

[shimmilou]

Fluoride is still a concern because it's mostly designed to promote good dental health, when people need only brush and floss and those little Christmas tree thingies between the teeth. Although you're speaking above my head here, wouldn't it make more sense if public health officials simply removed fluoride from drinking water? And instructed dentists to teach the patients abut good dental health, without drinking water fluoride?

That being said, my day tomorrow includes visiting the dentist for a routine cleaning. She'll check my overbite, I'll reply I remembered some Dentyne Ice for her beforehand, we'll laugh, then she'll douse me with sonic water and scrape the bejeebus out of my teeth. But, my teeth will clean clean and sparkly., and I'll smile at her and thank her for the enjoyable day. The only thing amazing about all of this is that I get to sit back, put my feet up, clench my legs, and speak walkie-talkie language to her while she works. And yes, I have to do this every so often. It's one of the blessings one has to do because we eat food, that also requires teeth cleaning.

And TBH, she ordered the dental appointment. I just agreed to a place and time.

Sorry, I got all worked up there.

Check out what fluoride really is. It is an industrial waste, and there is no real good way to safely dispose of it, so why not convince people to use/drink it and profit from treating the ensuing health problems?

 

[goat-n-gitter]

I'm sure I'm mostly just grumpy because it is very early in the morning, but:

1). Why isn't there a button to "dislike" a thread/post, because I would push it repeatedly for this one!
2). Perhaps the OP might like to seek out a health/wellness related forum and discuss these things?
3). At least we now know it is possible to be more preachy than Les when someone brings up modeling (just teasing, Les!)
4). As a tallish, roundish, not balding 50 something person, I know what I should do to improve my health, I struggle to motivate myself to do so, but get very annoyed at seemingly well-meaning people who somehow think I'm too dumb to figure out what it would take to improve my health or that I don't notice what I look like in the mirror or what I weigh on the scale.
5). On the plus side, at least you didn't abbreviate a cuss word or use the term ACCA DACCA to misname the Australian classic rock band.

Rant finished, have a nice day.